Malpartida de Cáceres lies just about 10km to the west of the city Cáceres and has 2 fascinating things to offer: the Vostell museum and the natural landscape of Los Barruecos. The museum was founded in 1976 in a former wool laundry (Lavadero de Lanas) from the 18th centuries, where sheep were sheared, the wool …
We had reached Cáceres, where the city wall still contains a medieval town with no outward signs of modernity. While wandering through streets and alleys with medieval palaces and churches, it is easy to imagine to have travelled back in time. We had decided to visit the Casa-Museo Árabe, a historic house which is decorated like the …
The last chance to cross the Tajo before it becomes the border to Portugal and finally leaves Spain, is at Alcántara, and here the only bridge is from 106 AD! It was restored a couple of times, but still serves like nearly 2000 years ago. The stone arch bridge was built over the Tajo between 104 and …
Coria is a historically significant city, located on a strategically important hill above the Río Alagón. Before the Romans came in the 2nd BC, the Vettones already settled here. Under the Visigoths, the city was already the seat of a bishopric. The Medieval city wall and the bridge as well as the cathedral are signs …
Granadilla was an important walled town, capital of the region known as Tierras de Granadilla and head of the judicial district. The town was evicted in the middle of the 20th century, when the area became a flood zone due to the construction of the Gabriel y Galán reservoir at the río Alagón, a tributary to …
After we had found this wonderful spot at the Embalse de Plasencia, a dam at the río Jerte with great water to swim and a nice shore to park and relax, we didn’t want to leave again to drive to the Via Verde de la Plata. But we found a cycling route along the dam, …
At the Embalse de Valdecañas we had a look at the remains of a Roman temple and found a river pool, where we could take a refreshing dip before a thunderstorm started. The next day we visited Romangordo, a tiny village with fascinating murals and finally the Monastery of Yuste, where Charles V spent the …
On Google Earth we had found an abandoned power plant, called La Fabrica de la Luz, at the Tajo. The road there clearly was without tarmac, but it didn’t look so bad on google earth. You could see a car parked, so we decided to give it a try. After going through Valdeverdejo – nothing …
Even with the heat, we wanted to cycle along another railway line, the Via Verde de la Jara which is in total 52 km long. It starts at Calera y Chozas, leading south over the Tajo via an enormous viaduct and up into the mountains on the other side, which are dominated by a savannah …
Talavera de la Reina at the Tajo is world-famous for its pottery of high quality and artistic value. We decided to stop here and take a walk, to admire the azulejos which decorate many parts of town. The area around Talavera has been settled by Celtic tribes since ancient times. In 181 BC the place …
